York University participated in HARD and Genomics tracks this year. For both tracks, we used Okapi BSS (basic search system) as the basis. Our experiments mainly focused on exploi...
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Ming Zhong, Miao Wen
Finding biological entities (such as genes or proteins) that satisfy certain conditions from texts is an important and challenging task in biomedical information retrieval and tex...
In TREC Genomics a question/answering task has been proposed. A set of questions with a specific entity of interest is proposed and a set of passages from a collection of full te...
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises...
In the robust track, we mainly tested our passage-based retrieval model with different passage sizes and weighting schemes. In our approach, we used two retrieval models, namely t...